I liked my taste of staying out late, a rare delicacy for me, decadent and delicious and dose-dependent. It was worth the minutes lost of great nature’s second course. It was a dessert. ❤️
Hi Kate. Insightful piece on sleep and self! I struggle with sleep issues, so I really like your metaphor of the balloon — inflated, pinpricked, big holes, just the. casing:
A good night is airtight, an inflated balloon. When I wake up in the morning and push against a good night of sleep with my finger, it pushes back. A bad night of sleep is full of holes. Sometimes they’re small—pinpricks—and the air leaks out slowly, throughout the day. When I push against the bad night of sleep with my finger, it deflates even more. Sometimes, the holes are so large that the bad night doesn’t hold anything; it’s just the casing of a night of sleep that could have been.
You made me really think about our relationships with sleep. I seem to need more sleep to function. I never pulled an all nighter studying. There is also the issue of falling and staying asleep. My mother, your great grandmother, had a terrible time falling asleep, while I generally fall asleep immediately. You also touched on how rigid we can be, which bears looking at in all aspects of our lives. Thank you.
I'm looking forward to reading the Zevin novel. I loved her YA book Elsewhere, and I enjoyed a couple of her other adult novels.
I agree that We Were Three was great. I wasn't sure if I could get through it, because I am so angered by people who believe conspiracy theories to the detriment of their own well-being. But the podcast was done with a lot of sensitivity and compassion.
I really loved it! Haven't read her other YA fiction, but you'll have to let me know what you think.
And yes...I wondered if We Were Three would be hard to stomach but it was so well done, so thoughtful and nuanced, with attention to decades of heartbreak, but also with room for love/forgiveness/coming back together.
I liked my taste of staying out late, a rare delicacy for me, decadent and delicious and dose-dependent. It was worth the minutes lost of great nature’s second course. It was a dessert. ❤️
Hi Kate. Insightful piece on sleep and self! I struggle with sleep issues, so I really like your metaphor of the balloon — inflated, pinpricked, big holes, just the. casing:
A good night is airtight, an inflated balloon. When I wake up in the morning and push against a good night of sleep with my finger, it pushes back. A bad night of sleep is full of holes. Sometimes they’re small—pinpricks—and the air leaks out slowly, throughout the day. When I push against the bad night of sleep with my finger, it deflates even more. Sometimes, the holes are so large that the bad night doesn’t hold anything; it’s just the casing of a night of sleep that could have been.
You made me really think about our relationships with sleep. I seem to need more sleep to function. I never pulled an all nighter studying. There is also the issue of falling and staying asleep. My mother, your great grandmother, had a terrible time falling asleep, while I generally fall asleep immediately. You also touched on how rigid we can be, which bears looking at in all aspects of our lives. Thank you.
I'm looking forward to reading the Zevin novel. I loved her YA book Elsewhere, and I enjoyed a couple of her other adult novels.
I agree that We Were Three was great. I wasn't sure if I could get through it, because I am so angered by people who believe conspiracy theories to the detriment of their own well-being. But the podcast was done with a lot of sensitivity and compassion.
I really loved it! Haven't read her other YA fiction, but you'll have to let me know what you think.
And yes...I wondered if We Were Three would be hard to stomach but it was so well done, so thoughtful and nuanced, with attention to decades of heartbreak, but also with room for love/forgiveness/coming back together.